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VX00.SYS is a DOS device driver and has no parameters. It must
be installed using the DOS_DEVICE setting for selected DOS tasks.
If you desire VX00.SYS loaded for all DOS sessions, then load it
in your OS/2 CONFIG.SYS.
VX00.SYS is little more than a software interface to SIO,
providing FOSSIL based programs with direct access to the real
comm driver SIO.SYS. This direct access allows FOSSIL based
programs to bypass the virtualization and the associated
processor time that virtualization eats up. Your FOSSIL based
programs should now require far less of the processor's time.
There are no options or utilities for VX00.SYS. DO NOT use X00's
XU with VX00.SYS, it will not work correctly. VX00.SYS has no
buffers to make larger or smaller, it uses the same buffers that
SIO.SYS uses; DOS programs or device drivers can not lock/unlock
the baud rate, only SIO.SYS can do that. There should be no need
to turn off the FOSSIL or to uninstall it.
Try VX00.SYS before assuming that you need to do things the same
old way that it was done with X00 or another FOSSIL. All of the
rules have changed for DOS comm when executing under OS/2.